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Updated April 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · March 23, 2026
RagingWine reviewed La Voile’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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The wine list at La Voile reads like someone raided a Champagne house's library and said, fine, we'll add a few whites too. It's unapologetically French, unapologetically Champagne-forward, and makes zero apologies for the prices. You know exactly where you are before you order a thing.
France is the beginning, middle, and end of this list — Champagne, Alsace, Bourgogne, Loire, and not much else. The Champagne selection is genuinely serious: a 1976 Lanson magnum, a 2002 Bollinger RD, a 2008 Pol Roger Winston Churchill. These aren't celebrity vanity bottles, they're real aged prestige cuvées from houses that earned their names. Outside Champagne, you get touches of legitimacy — Henri Bourgeois Sancerre in magnum, a Maison Willm Grand Cru Alsace — but the list narrows quickly. If you came looking for Rhône, Bordeaux, or anything from the New World, you'll be redirected.
Ten options by the glass is a reasonable pour count for a room this size, though the list leans predictably toward French classics. We'd love to see more rotation and a grower Champagne or two making an appearance. What's here is competently chosen; it just doesn't swing as hard as the bottle list does.
Henri Bourgeois Sancerre 'La Bourgeoise' 2014 (Magnum) — $155
A magnum of serious, aged Sancerre from one of the Loire's best producers at a price that doesn't make you wince. Split it across the table and feel like you made a smart decision.
Maison Willm 'Grand Cru Kirchberg de Barr' Alsace 2015
Everyone's eyeing the Champagne menu, and this bottle gets ignored. That's a mistake. Grand Cru Alsace at a French bistro is exactly the kind of thing worth ordering — textured, specific, food-driven, and almost nobody at the table will see it coming.
Lanson 'Vintage Collection' Brut 1976 (Magnum)
Look, it's a 1976 Champagne magnum and it's probably extraordinary. But at $1,300 with no context about provenance or storage history on the menu, you're taking a significant blind faith leap. Unless this is a celebration with serious budget, the risk-to-reward math doesn't work.
Laurent Perrier 'Ultra Brut' NV + Moules Marinières
Zero dosage Champagne against a briny, butter-and-white-wine broth is one of those combinations that just makes sense. The Ultra Brut's austerity cuts right through the richness without stepping on the ocean-fresh character of the mussels.
The Bottom Line
La Voile is for the person who already knows they want Champagne and wants to feel like they're on the Île Saint-Louis while they drink it. The markup stings and the list doesn't venture far from France's greatest hits, but what it does, it does with real conviction.
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